The Week in Ransomware – November 12th 2021 – Targeting REvil This week, law enforcement struck a massive blow against the REvil ransomware operation, with multiple arrests announced and the seizure of cryptocurrency. On Monday, the US Department of Justice, Europol, and Interpol announced arrests of REvil affiliates and members in Kuwait Read more…
Microsoft Intune Bug Forces Samsung Devices into Non-compliant State Microsoft says some Samsung Galaxy devices will be marked as non-compliant with the organization’s security requirements in Microsoft Intune’s management interface after automatic restarts or after installing managed updates. Microsoft Intune is a cloud service that allows admins to manage Windows, macOS, Read more…
QBot Returns for a New Wave of Infections Using Squirrelwaffle The activity of the QBot (also known as Quakbot) banking trojan is spiking again, and analysts from multiple security research firms attribute this to the rise of Squirrelwaffle. Squirrelwaffle emerged last month as one of the most likely candidates to fill the Read more…
FTC Shares Ransomware Defense Tips for Small US Businesses The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared guidance for small businesses on how to secure their networks from ransomware attacks by blocking threat actors’ attempts to exploit vulnerabilities using social engineering or exploits targeting technology. The first step businesses are Read more…
These are the Top-level Domains Threat Actors Like the Most Out of over a thousand top-level domain choices, cyber-criminals and threat actors prefer a small set of 25, which accounts for 90% of all malicious sites. Six out of the top 10 of these 25 top-level domains (TLD) are handled Read more…
Microsoft Warns of Surge in HTML Smuggling Phishing Attacks Microsoft has seen a surge in malware campaigns using HTML smuggling to distribute banking malware and remote access trojans (RAT). While HTML smuggling is not a new technique, Microsoft is seeing it increasingly used by threat actors to evade detection, including Read more…
Costco Discloses Data Breach After Finding Credit Card Skimmer Costco Wholesale Corporation has warned customers in notification letters sent this month that their payment card information might have been stolen while recently shopping at one of its stores. The retail giant (also known as Costco Wholesale and Costco) is an American Read more…
Zero-day Bug in all Windows Versions Gets Free Unofficial Patch A free and unofficial patch is now available for a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows User Profile Service that lets attackers gain SYSTEM privileges under certain conditions. The bug, tracked as CVE-2021-34484, was incompletely patched by Microsoft during Read more…
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